You could (as the GM) restrict people from buying specific skills, but it's inherently classless. Albeit I feel that's the best way it works. Forcing people to play a specific way is annoying (imo). If I want to play a Presence based warrior, I should be able to, just a a wizard should be able to be a athletics and agility focused. It shouldn't be based on class but on what the character's backstory is. ^_^

Races are pretty easy to do in BhB. Just give them NPC edges. (BZ has a list of possible npc edges, like foul stench, invisible in water, etc etc). Adding cool edges is definitely possible, as its a very easy system to just add crap to. (Like in Forge's Halo game)

1. Oh, nonononono, I don't want to do that Railroady thing. You can have presence and other default skills/feats, classes just dictate what kind of super-special abilities you can buy up front. Like, a Black Paladin can use ethereal chains to trip/pull his foes, but a Hunter is going to have to do some serious training into the Black Magic branch of the default skill tree if he wants to do that. Effectively, you could be a shotgun-wielding battlemage with a 2h sword if you hoard enough EXP points, but classes just select various skill tree abilities and make them easily accessible depending on how you want to play early in the game, or what your prerequisite skillset is. Like the Dark Souls class thing, but it matters a bit more.

EVERYTHING is available in the default tree for everyone, classes just take convenient scoops out of that tree to save time and mix up the party's skillsets.

2. Okay, sounds fun!

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Oh then yeah, BHB fantasy does that awesome. There's Wujens, priests, shamans, Feng Shui masters, Forest Wards, Drunken masters, KI masters, and ninja masters, and each allow for a different set of ability gains.

The best example would be Ki Master, which is an edge that makes it easier to get pretty much all of the (close) combat edges as well as the atheltics edges, and Forest Ward, which allows you to get a bunch of stealth, medic, and outdoors edges easily.